Science Fiction

Portishead's Geoff Barrow and British composer Ben Salisbury collaborate on the score for Alex Garland's thought provoking psy-fi film Ex Machina. Ryan Smith explores some of the results - a fitting… Video, Audio

Emily St John Mandel's latest novel 'Station Eleven' recently won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction. She visits the Auckland Writers Festival this week, and tells Eva about… Audio

Lipgloss Slumberparty introduces his song Spacevox. Audio

Sci-fi fans have descended on Auckland this weekend for the annual Armageddon expo. It's been running in Auckland for nearly twenty years and has gone from what was essentially just a comic trading… Audio

Lynn Freeman talks to director, actor, playwright and novelist Phillip Mann about his long held love of reading and writing science fiction, with the publication of his latest novel, 'The… Audio

Iain Banks gained attention and notoriety when his his debut novel, 'The Wasp Factory', came out in 1984. Since then he has written almost 30 books ranging from fiction, and science-fiction under the… Audio

Ray Bradbury, the popular author of 27 novels including the dystopian novel 'Fahrenheit 451', science fiction classic, 'The Martian Chronicles', and fantasy horror novel 'Something Wicked This Way… Audio

Adrian Hollay talks about the 1927 German expressionist silent movie 'Metropolis' - one of the first science-fiction films - and explores its original music. Audio

Paolo Bacigalupi has written one of the great books of modern science fiction - The Windup Girl. It has won the most prestigious awards possible, both the Hugo and Nebula prizes. He has also been… Audio

William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in a short story written back in 1982. His 1984 debut novel Neuromancer has become one of the most influential and acclaimed science fiction works of recent… Audio

We hear about the career of the actor widely known as Mr Spock. Audio

Formerly known as Zowie Bowie, Duncan Jones is the son of glam rocker David Bowie. He's stepping out of his father's shadow and earning his own acclaim as a film maker. His low budget science fiction… Audio

Phillip Mann is the author of the Paxwax science fiction series. Audio

Discussing four books by American science fiction and fantasy writer Madeleine L'Engle, including the classic A Wrinkle in Time. Audio